News in the mainstream GOP spin machine's world: U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Stace Nelson says on his third quarter 2013 campaign finance report that he already had $18,835 in his campaign war chest when he launched his campaign this summer.…
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Blog attack! Pure Pierre Politics, Bob Mercer's read-worthy blog complement to his formal statewide reporting, is currently inaccessible. Mr. Mercer tells me that trouble started yesterday with some sort of server attack. The home domain for Mercer's blog, my605.com, appears…
On November 26, intrepid reporter Bob Mercer sent Attorney General Marty Jackley a public records request, which makes a strong case for opening the Richard Benda death investigation to public scrutiny. In response, AG Jackley agreed to open those records…
The South Dakota Democratic Party has called for a special prosecutor to investigate "the $550,000 theft of taxpayer funds by Northern Beef Packers and SDRC, Inc." The SDDP, like me, wonders why Attorney General Marty Jackley is declining to take…
Pat Powers outs Pierre-area Republican Jim Sheehan as author of a new blog, Republican Territory. Sheehan has been playing Federalist Papers fitfully for a bit over a year, warming his quill behind a suitably Roman superhero pseudonym with a few…
Dakota War College Is Not. When a blogger is more interested in winning cash from candidates than in reporting the news, it's time to read a new blog. I said Sunday that receiving thousands of dollars from U.S. Senate candidate…
The Rounds for Senate campaign paid Republican blogger Pat Powers $2,136 for advertising during the third quarter of 2013. According to Rounds's Q3 FEC report, Team Rounds paid Powers's Dakota Campaign Store $636 on August 17 and $1,500 on September…
Rep. Stace Nelson's campaign team announcement raises an interesting side question about the independence and reliability of the blogosphere. Included on Nelson's mostly homegrown 30-person team is Libertarian blogger Ken Santema from Aberdeen, who dutifully runs that press release with…